Walmart and Amazon also receive the largest amount of SNAP dollars in grocery sales, so they benefit twice over for those inadequate wages.

Those bike lanes are great! More of those kinds please.

Intrigued to know how $250k would be used for such a project. If you split that among 60 families, it’s over $4k, and I can’t help but think about how vital that money would have been in helping any number of the families in your book when they were at the same point.

And not just housing! Unaffordable commercial leases contribute to the same high operational costs >> high prices. Do you have any specific policy plans that address that too?

Mojito in Lake City (good food and they make weekly free meals for the U Dist Food Bank so ♥️) and Lenox in Belltown (new and lovely, also of Chopped fame).

This was such a great story, some of the best coverage I read today. So glad to learn about what’s happening in Yakima, and grateful for all the voices you represented in the piece.

It was actually her initiative to start! council.seattle.gov/2025/01/15/c...

That was a sympathy heart, not a like. It was great work.

Also not just homelessness of course, housing unaffordability up the income ladder, etc. Indicators for small businesses likewise not great along similar considerations like increased operating costs (again, including rent) greater than revenue increases.

I don’t think all alternative measures bear that out, and a serious reckoning with how we measure economic health is warranted. Money didn’t go as far, and we continue to face record food insecurity and homelessness. I thought this analysis captured it well. www.stephensemler.com/p/how-the-mo...

The best I've read so far :

"Winning wasn’t Harris’s primary concern; winning without the left and anti-war movement was"

www.stephensemler.com/p/how-the-mo...